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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22897	A little pamphlet entituled the ladder of paradise Very worthy and needful to be read of every Christian that is willing to tread the steps which lead to heauen.; Scala paradisi. English.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Guigo II, d. 1188, attributed name.; T. W., fl. 1573-1595.	1580 (1580)	STC 937; ESTC S115844	15,368	46

is more more kindled Whilst thou Lord doost break vnto me the bread of holy Scripture in breaking of bread thou art the sooner knowen the more I knowe thée y e more I desire to knowe thée not now in the bark of the letter but in the féeling of experience Neither doo I ask this O Lord for my merites but for thy mercies sake For I confesse that I am an vnworthy sinfull soule not withstanding the whelpes doo eat y e crūmes that fall from the table of their Lords Giue me o Lord y e ernest of the enheritāce to come at the least one drop of the heauenly raine that I might coole my thirst for I burne in loue of thée The office of contemplation Cap. 5. WIth these and such like enflamed spéeches the soule kindleth her desire as she vttereth her affection w t these allurements the soule caleth to her selfe the Bridegroom Now the Lord whose eyes are set vpon the righteous and his ears not onely open vnto their prayers but hastely interrupting the middle course of the prayer and spéedely béeing compassed with the dew of heauenly grace he meteth with the destring soule And béeing anointed with the best ointmēt he recreateth y e wery soule he refresheth the hungry maketh fat the lean soule causeth her to forget all worldly thingꝭ and béeing vnmindeful of him self by fortifying the soule maketh her aliue and by making her drunck causeth her to be sober and like as in certein carnall duties the concupiscence is so ouercome that it looseth the vse of reasō and is become as it were altogither carnall So for good cause in this heauenly contemplation the carnall mocions are so consumed and swalowed vp of the soule that the flesh dooth contrary the spirit in no thing and the man is made as it were altogither spirituall Signes of the holy Ghoste coming vnto the soule Cap. 6. O Lord how doost thou appéer when thou woorkest these thinge what token is ther of thy comming Be sighes and teares witnesses and messengers of this ioye and consolation If it be so this is a new kinde of speech by a contrary meaning and a signification out of vse For what felowship hath consolation with sorowful sighes or ioy w c teares If these yet ought to be called teares and not rather an ouer running abundance of inward dew powred vpon the soule and a token bothe of the inward and outward purging That like as in the baptisme of child●en by the outward washing is signified and figured the inward washing of the soule so hear the inward purging goeth before the outward clensing O happy teares by which the inward blemishes of the soule are purged by which y e kindlings of sin are quenched Blessed are you that so mourne because you shall laugh In teares O soule acknowledge thy bridegroom imbrace thy long desired one Now make thy self drunk in the riuer of plesure suck Milk Hunny out of the brest of his consolation These are the pure gifts pleasures which thy Bridegroom hath sent thée namely mourning and teares With these teares he bringeth drink vnto thée by measure these teares are thy food night and day euen the bread that maketh strong the hart of man which are swéeter thē the honye or the hony comb O Lord if these teares be so excéeding sweet with the desire and remembrance of thée how swéet shall the ioy be which shalbe taken by y e manifest sight of thee If it be so sweet a thing to weep for thee how sweet shall it be to reioyce of thee But what doo wee go about to set foorth openly the secret speeches of the soule why go we about w t vsuall woords to expresse y e spirituall affections Those which haue not the experience therof vnderstād not any such matters whom the anointing it selfe teacheth in y e book of experiēce or els y e outward letter profiteth nothing to him that readeth Litle good sauour hath the reading of the outward letter except from the harta man take the exposicion and inward sence In what estate the soule remaineth whilst the feruencie of the holy Ghoste departeth Cap. 7. O Soule we haue greatly prolonged this talke for it was good for vs to bee heer with Peeter and Iohn to beholde the glory of the Bridegroom and long to remain with him But I would there were made heer not three nor two seuerall Tabernacles but one in which we might all dwel togither and Joy togither But as the Bridegroome saieth Let me go for now the mornig riseth Now thou hast receiued the visitation and light of grace which thou diddest desire Therfore the blessing béeing giuen thee the sinow of thy thigh beeing mortified and thy name beeing chaunged from Jacob to Israel now for a while goeth aside y e bridegrome long desired and soon departed he withdraweth himself as wel from the vision as from the swéetnes of contemplation yet dooth hée still remain present towching y e gouernment the glory and the vnite A reson geuē why the feruentnesse of the holy ghost dooth for a time leaue the soule Cap. 8. BVt feare not O spouse despair not neither thinke thy self to be contemned though for a while y e bride grōe hide his face frō thée all these things woork togither for thy profit and thou makest a gaine bothe of his cōming and of his departure hée cometh for thy profit and hée also departeth for thy profit hee cōeth to giue thée comfort and departeth to make thée vigilant lest the greatnes of thy consolation should puffe thée vp lest if the bridegrome should alwaies abide with thee y u shouldst begin to contemne thy felowes and shouldst now attribute this continuall visitation not to grace but to nature for this grace the bridegroom giueth to whom hée will when it pleaseth him the possession therof is not gotten by any right of enheritance It is a cōmō sayīg ouer much familiaritie bréedeth contēpt The bridegrom therfore departeth from thée least beeing ouer much conuersant hee might be contemned and that being absent he might be the more desired and béeing desired the more gréedily sought for being long sought for hee might be at the last more thākfully found Furthermore what is this present life what is it in respect of the glory to come which shall be shewed vpon vs surely it is a life like a dark riddell in which wee vnderstand but a small parte for heer we haue no continuing Citie but we seek for one to come let vs not then take our banishment for our countrie nor the ernest penny for the whole price The Bridegrome cometh departeth again Somtime bringing consolation sometime turning our whole estate into weaknes A litle while he suffereth vs to taste how sweet he is and before we can fully feele it hee withdraweth himself and as it were flickring ouer vs with his wings spred a brode bē proueketh vs to fly